Lightfoot plays hits, 'dark horses' at Asheville show

But no, he is not on Twitter

12:53 AM,
Jun. 13, 2013

Gordon Lightfoot plays June 16 at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium.

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You expect to hear the hits when Gordon Lightfoot plays. And the '70s folk legend will gladly do them when he returns June 16 at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. Think songs like "Early Morning Rain" and "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."

But for his new tour, "50 Years on the Carefree Highway," he's also digging deep and playing what he calls the "dark horses" - tracks from his many albums that don't get as much exposure.

"A lot of these, you haven't heard before," Lightfoot said in a phone interview last week. "They are songs that should have worked well on stage, but we never got a chance to work on them. We ...